Certificate of Achievement
Mary Templeman Hogg - O'Rourke
has completed the following course:
Global Blindness: Planning and Managing Eye Care Services
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
This course aimed to enable eye care providers to deliver an effective and efficient eye care service for the prevention of avoidable blindness. Learners explored the epidemiology of visual impairment and blindness, considered the global response for the prevention of blindness, assessed the application of public health control strategies for visual loss from cataract and refractive error at a local level, and explored the principles of planning, monitoring and evaluation for eye health systems.
6 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dr Daksha Patel
Assistant Professor in International Eye Health
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe the magnitude and causes of blindness and visual impairment, both globally and locally.
- Evaluate the key public health control strategies to strengthen service provision for cataract and refractive error in your local setting.
- Apply the essentials of the planning process for implementation in your setting.
- Assess the relevance of the Vision 2020: the right to sight initiative and the applicability of Global action plan 2014-2019 to your local setting.
- Interpret the relevance of monitoring and evaluation for effective management of an eye care service.
Syllabus
- Epidemiological data on the causes and prevalence of blindness and visual impairment
- VISION 2020: The Right to Sight
- The Global Action Plan 2014-2019
- Key public health strategies for cataract and refractive error
- Health systems strengthening
- The essentials of the planning process for eye care programmes
- The principles of monitoring and evaluation
Issued on 22nd July 2019
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